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My sister has always been the prettier sibling, she has blonde hair, implants, etc. Recently, I lost 30 lbs and have been looking better than I ever did before.

Couple steps back, my mom posted a national daughters day appreciation post and chose to use an old (uglier) photo of me rather than a recent beautiful updated photo- even tho she was sent the recent photo a few minutes before she made the post. I confided in my sister of how much this bothered me but she told me that she thought I looked fine. I thought this was hypocritical because the photo of her on the post was photoshopped to the T. I personally thought it was weird how she was bothered by the smallest details in her photo but she never saw anything wrong in my old ugly untouched photo.

Back to now, I sent a video to my sister how my hair was naturally curling, she seemed happy for me. But the following night she sent an old photo of all of us and again that bothered feeling came again. I can tell she photoshopped herself but I could be wrong.. but all I’m thinking is, did she do this out of spite? Are these jealous moves or is it just in my head?

The first three photos are screenshots from the video i sent her showing my hair, and the last one is the photo she then sent me. I’m on the far right and she’s on the far left.

A guy I was casual with started acting differently for the last couple of days I was with him - he put less emphasis on sex, and wanted to take long walks, talk, wach a movie together, cuddle... We also talked about our values, ideal partner and vision of the future, and we're really compatible. I would take this as him liking me.

BUT, this was the first time I experienced "slow love /like". So despite showing clear signs of liking him, I was so focused on not being in love that I thought I had no romantic interest in him, and told him that. When I came back home, he ghosted.

I asked if everything was okay, still no reply, but he kept tabs on me by viewing my every story and status. I decided to remove him from my socials and delete his number. But it felt wrong doing it without saying goodbye, so just before deleting his no., I messaged to say goodbe, also called him out on ghosting and immaturity (worded in non-accusatory manner), and mentioned I liked him. Suddenly he replied with a smiley, said he was ohw home, and that he would get back to me later. But... he ghosted again.

Today I was talking with a guy friend who was sure he liked me, and we realized this might have pushed him away: (note he's 25, and I'm in my early 30s)

while we were talking about our visions of the future and the right partner, I mentioned I don't want to wait anymore. I meant I want to find the right person soon, and not settle down (I have things to take care of before that, which will take some years). But it might have come off as the latter given the context

Now this is bugging me, and I really want to say something (maybe a couple of weeks from now). But I don't know if he would still ask about it or ghost (see below)

What would you do in his place?

1. Would you still ask me about it after I told you I liked you, despite thinking I was ready to settle down? So to clear the confusion

2. Would you rather ghost to spare your own feelings because you were sure I was ready to settle down?